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Who Killed Thelma Todd? Details Surrounding Her Mysterious Death After ‘She Was Threatened’
Who killed Thelma Todd? Author Michelle Morgan tells Closer exclusively of the details surrounding the star's death in 1935 and the story of her Sidewalk Cafe.
Housed in a beautiful Spanish-style building, it encompassed a fine dining restaurant serving lobster and oysters, a ballroom with a bandstand, and a private nightclub called Joya’s, where the namesake star and co-owner would throw frequent parties. Her death by carbon monoxide poisoning was initially ruled a suicide but later reclassified by a grand jury as “accidental.” “Hollywood didn’t want another celebrity murder on their hands,” explains Morgan. “There were too many threats, too many stories of gangsters pestering her, and too many questions as to why on earth Thelma would want to walk up a large hill in the middle of the night, to fall asleep in a garage.”
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